Sentence examples for To be subsistence from inspiring English sources

"The natural state of human beings is to be subsistence farmers, and that was my expectation," he said, adding that his world was "Scandinavian, hard-core, very self-denying people who go through life never expecting to be happy".

Some will continue to be subsistence hunters; others will choose to move away.

The people I've met in countries like Peru, El Salvador and Haiti tend to be subsistence farmers in the countryside or residents of big-city slums who do odd jobs to make ends meet.

Worldwide around 55percentt of workers are self-employed, and about three-quarters of these are likely to be subsistence entrepreneurs (Gindling and Newhouse, 2014).

Agriculture here tends to be subsistence-oriented, and many of the farmers still practise shifting cultivation.Another scientist, who has spent about ten years living in Laos, says that in the past decade the government has granted land concessions to Chinese, Vietnamese and Thai investors that exceed the size of all the rice-growing areas in Laos.

Another huge threat to lemurs is subsistence hunting.

'You don't want to be a subsistence rice farmer.

When the welfare state was founded, benefits were meant to be of "subsistence" level and free healthcare was meant to save your life.

However, there was no evidence that adult smallpox victims were more likely to be poor (that is, subsistence migrants).

In the first method (1A), which is used by the WHO, all household expenditure exceeding a particular food expenditure threshold is considered to be non-subsistence expenditure.

Their parents are subsistence farmers, too poor to afford an ox.